Improvement in setter, gauge, and case for sewing-machine needles



E. E. HENDRICK; Setter, Gage, and Case for Sewing-Machine Needles.

Patented June 7,1870.

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Letters Patent No. 104,030, dated .Tune i', 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN SETTER, G-AUG-E, AND CASE FOR SEWING-MACHINE NEEDLES.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all 'whom 'it may concern:

Beit known that I', ELI E. HENDRICK, of Carbondale, in the county of Luzerne and State of Pennsylpanying drawingmaking part of thisspeciicat-ion, in#

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Figure 1V is a perspective view of the instrument. Figure 2 is a similar view,- showing a needle adj usted in position for insertion into a needle-bar.

Figure 3 is an enlarged diametrieal section through the instrument, having a needle applied to it.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the, several figures. Y

rIfhe object of this invention is to obtain an instrument by which'sewing-machine needles can be quickly and convenientlyinserted into the needle-bars of sewing-machines in proper positions for operation; also, to combine with such an instrument a case for coutaining needles, which case is adapted to serve as the handle of the instrument.

To enable others skilled in the art to understand my invention, I will explain its construction and operation.

In the accompanying drawing- A represents a hollow handle, which servesy as a case or receptacle for containing needles.

This case is closed at one end, and screw-tapped at the other end, for receiving a male screw, which is formed on the portion G ofthe handle, as shown in tig. 3.

The portion C is also hollow, and receives on its reduced end a hollow metallic portion, B, which terminates in a rounded end or knob, through which perforations a and b are made, at rightl angles to cach other.

Within the metallic portion a plug s is applied, so as to slide freely in a direction with the length of the handle;'and to this plug s'a thumb-piece, e, is fixed, which passes through the oblong slot f, and is sufficiently exposed to be moved with one of the fingers or the thumb of the hand grasping lthe handle of the instrument.

From the outer end of the sliding plug s a rib or point, s, projects, which is moved back and forth in the perforation b, with its plug, and which is intended to pass through the eye of a needle, g, inserted through the perforation a, and center .the needle ,properly in place.

In rear of the plug s' is a spring, p, which operates to keep the plug and its nib in the position shown in iig. 3.

gauge, c, is pivoted, which has its free end forked, so as to straddle the shank of a needle, when adjusted as shown in iig. 2.

This gauge c is made of spring metal, and bent so On one side of the rounded endiof the holder B a that it will press snugly against the shank of a needle, when adjusted at right angles to the handle A, as shown in iig. 2, and thereby be held in place, and so that, when its forked end is adjusted into the notch d, as shown in iig. 1, it will be also held in this position by its spring.

'lhe length of the spring gauge c is suoli, with respeet` to the length ofthe needles, that when it is adjusted in place on a needle, which is held bythe nib s, the, shank of the needle will be exposed beyond the forked end of the gauge just so far as it is required to enter the needle-'bar of a sewing-machine.

` Operation.

Unscrew'the handle or case A, and reniove therefrom the needle which it is required to use; then screw the parts together again, and, with the handle in the left hand, and the perforation a in a vertical position, insert through this perforation the point ofthe needle, which can be done after the nib s is drawn back hy the foretinger upon the knob c. Then adjust' the needle: so that its eye is in line with the point ot' said nib,"'and remove the finger from the knob, which will allow spring p to force the nib through the eye of the needle, as shown in fig. 3, and hold the needle fast, with its eye coinciding with the longitudinal axis of the instrument;` Then swing around the gauge c to thefueedle, and spring the forked end about the shank of the needle, as shown in fig. 2. Tith the needle thus held, its shank is inserted into thelower end of the needle-bar of a sewing-machine, and pressed upward until the hooked end of the gauge abuts against the lower end of the needle-bar, observing, at thesame time, that the eye of the needle is in the right direction, which is easily determined, because the eye is alwaysin line with the hanudle A.

Thon the needle is made fast, the nib s is drawn back, and the instrument thus freed from thencedle; the forked end of the gauge is adjusted into the notch (I, and the instrument put away until again required. n

Having described my invention,

What I claimy'as new, and desire to secure by Let-V ters Patent, isi 1. The eombinationof'a needle-setter and a hollow handle, substantially as described.

2. The perforated holder B, furnished with a handle, and provided with a spring setting and retainingnib s, all constructed substantially as and for the pur-` pose described.

3. vThe gauge c, iii-combination with a perforated needle-holder, B, substantially as described..I

4. The combination of a setting and retaining-nib or point, s, with a gauge, c, which is pivoted-` to the perforated holder-D, substantially as described.

E. E. HENDRIGK. Witnesses:

W. B. Gitow, BLA. Gnow. 

